Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire

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Fall of Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire


Fall of Constantinople
The rising threat
  • 10th century forward Turks large military and politic in M East/W Asia Minor
  • Mongols beat Turks 13th century after Turks surviving crusades
  • Ottoman Turks(Islamic) take over Asia Minor, surround Byzantines by 1354
  • Council of Florence (1439)-John VII enter humiliating union w/ Rome for aid, but the people hate it and aid doesn't come
Capture of the City
  • Sultan Mehmet II takes Constantinople, defeats Constantine XI Palaeologus
  • Little military or economic effect
  • Didn’t affect flow of trade btwn E and W
  • No exodus to Italy right after (already happened)
The End of an Era
  • Psychological impact
  • Christian Roman Empire—first authentically medieval state (Constant)
  • Marks end of the middle ages

Ottoman Empire
Mehmet II (1451-1481)—policy of conquest
  • century of expansion
  • Constantinople→Istanbul (takes over Balkans)
  • Surrounds Black Sea
Suleiman II (1520-1566)—height of power
  • Conquest Egypt, Mecca, Medina became Caliph
  • Vienna not conquered in 1529, Balkan and Hungary were

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